Mining Level 16-20

Where to find Grade 1 Carbonized Matter? They’re found in Middle La Noscea (Three-malm Bend). They’re a level 20 material, so this can get rough. This is also needed for the Botany 20 quest, so you can get 2 stacks if you want to.

Mining Level 21-25

Where to find Effervescent Water? They’re found in Upper Paths, South Shroud.

Level 25 Node Locations Unlocked:

Level 21 to 25 Mining Nodes and Materials Locations:

Material Name

Item Level

Perception

Node Level

Location

Zone

Node ID

Ice Shard

1

0

25

Upper Paths

South Shroud

25a

Ice Shard

1

0

25

Quarrymill

South Shroud

25b

Earth Shard

1

0

25

Thalaos

Upper La Noscea

25b

Earth Rock

21

25

Quarrymill

South Shroud

25b

Silver Sand

22

25

Quarrymill

South Shroud

25b

Ice Rock

23

25

Quarrymill

South Shroud

25b

Fire Rock

23

25

Thalaos

Upper La Noscea

25b

Effervescent Water

24

78

25

Upper Paths

South Shroud

25a

Wind Rock

24

25

Quarrymill

South Shroud

25b

Lightning Rock

24

25

Thalaos

Upper La Noscea

25b

Silver Ore

25

25

Upper Paths

South Shroud

25a

Water Rock

25

25

Thalaos

Upper La Noscea

25b

Suggested Stockpile:

20 of each Elemental Stone

20 extra Effervescent Water, Silver Sand

99 Silver Ore

Silver Ore is the only thing with value here, and luckily it’s near the levequest area so you can farm that while regenerating GP. Elemental stones are usually used in Supply Missions.IF Grinding: Silver Ore.

Mining Level 26-30

Where to find Wyvern Obsidian? They’re found in Wellwick Wood, Eastern Thanalan.

Node Locations Unlocked:

Level 26 to 30 Mining Nodes and Materials Locations:

Material Name

Item Level

Perception

Node Level

Location

Zone

Node ID

Fire Shard

1

0

30

Thal's Respite

Eastern Thanalan

30b

Ice Shard

1

0

30

The Flock

Western La Noscea

30f

Red Pigment

20

0

30

Wellwick Wood

Eastern Thanalan

30a

Lightning Crystal

26

0

30

Broken Water

Southern Thanlaan

30c

Bomb Ash

26

95

30

EAST of Forgotten Springs

Southern Thanlaan

30d

Earth Crystal

26

0

30

Blind Iron Mines

Lower La Noscea

30e

Ice Crystal

26

0

30

The Flock

Western La Noscea

30f

Wind Crystal

26

0

30

Little Solace

East Shroud

30h

Water Crystal

26

0

30

Nophicas Wells

Western Thanalan

30i

Silex

27

97

30

EAST of Forgotten Springs

Southern Thanlaan

30d

Wyvern Obisidan

28

99

30

Thal's Respite

Eastern Thanalan

30b

Purple Pigment

28

0

30

Broken Water

Southern Thanlaan

30c

Yellow Pigment

28

0

30

Blind Iron Mines

Lower La Noscea

30e

Brown Pigment

28

0

30

Blind Iron Mines

Lower La Noscea

30e

Grey Pigment

28

0

30

The Flock

Western La Noscea

30f

Green Pigment

28

0

30

Little Solace

East Shroud

30h

Blue Pigment

28

0

30

Nophicas Wells

Western Thanalan

30i

Brimstone

29

101

30

Oakwood

Upper La Noscea

30g

Grade 2 Carbonized Matter

30

0

30

Wellwick Wood

Eastern Thanalan

30a

Fire Crystal

30

0

30

Wellwick Wood

Eastern Thanalan

30a

Grade 2 Carbonized Matter

30

0

30

Broken Water

Southern Thanlaan

30c

Grade 2 Carbonized Matter

30

0

30

Blind Iron Mines

Lower La Noscea

30e

Grade 2 Carbonized Matter

30

0

30

The Flock

Western La Noscea

30f

Siltstone

30

104

30

Oakwood

Upper La Noscea

30g

Grade 2 Carbonized Matter

30

0

30

Little Solace

East Shroud

30h

Grade 2 Carbonized Matter

30

0

30

Nophicas Wells

Western Thanalan

30i

Suggested Stockpile:

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This is probably the worst tier possible when it comes to profitability. You can grind Silver Ore as well for maximum profit. Don’t forget to use Deep Vigor to guarantee an HQ hit.IF Grinding: Wyvern Obsidian or Silver Ore

126 thoughts on “FFXIV Mining Leveling Guide (70 Stormblood Updated)”

Don’t forget Custom Deliveries in Idyllshire @ 4.6 x 6.7. I haven’t seen those mentioned in this guide yet. These grant a ton of red gathering scripts and EXP. You can turn in 6 per week. Always turn in the highest collectible rating possible. Same goes for Disciplines of the Hand as well.

Just a quick question. You don’t mention anything regarding the Gyuki upgrades for the left side. The 63 quest offers Gyuki Hat, chest, hands and legs. Given that you talk about upgrading the accessories at 63, is it worthwhile doing the same for the left side or just hold out till 65.

i do this when i need the HQ materials for botany/mining quests, but i don’t bother with the other materials on that node. go for the shards. they have 100% chance. spend the 300gp for the extra hit. then deep vigor. then i use the +1 yield and i get guaranteed 2 HQ from those nodes.

In the 25-30 part you said “You can grind Silver Ore as well for maximum profit. Don’t forget to use Deep Vigor to guarantee an HQ hit” How a lvl 25-30 miner can use deep vigor if the max chain they can do is 4 on a +1 node? Am I missing something? Spending 300 GP for an extra attempt sounds like a terrible strategy.

If you have at least 500 gp, and a +1 gathering node, and at _least_ an 85% gather rate, you can:

Move 1) Unearth if you have 100% gather chance, Sharp Vision II if you have at least 85% chance. Less than that, this strategy is a bit too unreliable to use. If you only have at least 400gp, skip this step.
Move 2) dig once.
Move 3) Solid Reason (restores +1 gathering chances, but you have to have spent at least one dig first. (costs 300gp)
Move 4-7) dig four times, you should have one gather chance left at this point.
Move 8) Deep Vigor will light up at this point. Use it for 100% HQ chance on the next dig.
Move 9) Bountiful Yield (costs 100gp) will +1 the yield from the next dig.
Move 10) Dig and receive a guaranteed 2 HQ minerals. This technique works well in botany, too.

Just a quick update for the Yellow Copper Ore i’m currently leveling mining and was keeping an eye out for this but it wasn’t appearing at the listed time of 12ET so i did a bit of looking and since Stormblood the time has been changed to 4am/pm ET.

At the 60+ part of the guide, I think you should mention the gathering/perception you should have after obtaining and melding the gaganaskin etc gear. I’m having a hard time figuring out at what point I should replace the itemlvl 200 mining gear you could get at the end of HW.

Hey, just a head’s up, you don’t have to use Deep Vigor/Brunt Force twice in order to keep the effect of it. Use it once at Chain #4 and it applies to all gathers afterward, so those +2 Gathering Attempt nodes can really really help you out.

old comment, but I was puzzled by this as well. This guide assumes you were capped at lvl 50 in reborn, and got yourself the best set. For anyone coming after, there’s no way you’ll have 600, just completely ignore that part of the guide until you get to around 55.

On that last part for the lvl 60 Mining Quest help fro getting the Adamantite Ore, you need to change “Ageless Words” (BTN) to “Solid Reason” (MIN). I got kinda confused what you were talking about and was looking everywhere through all my actions and the node ran out on me :(

Kinda nit-picky comment, but I actually checked in my Actions list to see if I needed to drag Toil of the Pioneer onto my hotbar for MIN… then I realized it was a non-crossclass skill and what I needed was Toil of the Mountaineer, which was already on my hotbar.

Odd thing to note. At level 45 for whatever reason if you head to Bluefog right at that point you only can find the level 40 outcrops. At level 46 you can find the level 50 nodes. Not sure why but I noticed that one myself.

Hey, you have not one, not two, but three different values here for the lvl 15 miner’s quest. In the list at the beginning, you say 15 HQ Cinnabars. In the actual 11-15 section, you say 10 HQ Cinnabars at the beginning in bold type, but then when going through what to stockpile for grinding in that level range, you imply that it’s 20: “40 Cinnabar (20 for the quest)”

I just did the quest and I know it’s 10, but maybe make it not so ambiguous.

Hi I started to follow this guide and went of on a tangent when I discovered otherwise to make profit while grinding out my levels.
What I did simply was from 50-52 I leve quested taking the Quality quests (The merits of Upcycling and Taken for Granite) then from 52 onwards I proceeded to hard grind Mythrite Sand in CWH while collecting Yellow Copper Ore at each 12 interval. Originally I used the safety Toil of the Mountain > 3 Methodical with gaining 3 Then moved to Toil of the Mountain > 1 Methodical with 1 Utmost Caution Instinctual at 55 until until 57.
At 57 I kept collecting Mythrite during the off time from Yellow Copper but moved to doing toil of the Mountain > 1 Instinctual and depending on my I RNG (As Methodical rolls 115 with HQ 52 Pickaxe, 53 Quest sledge and full NQ 55 from moghome!) would depend what I do. If I rolled well on Instinctual I would Single Mind Methodical and have over my 240 and get 5 whole rocks! (That’s 300k every 35 minutes boys and girls!) otherwise I would have to utmost Caution followed by two Methdoicals and take 4 home. At 58 Mythrite sand really dips its exp gain so I set CWH as Home as Return was up every time I needed it and farmed Titanium from The Forelands.
This is baring in mind not having materia melded, not really buying HQ gear (I was using mining to make some money!!!) and having definitely less than 600gp. (I have 572 gosh HQ accs are expensive post 50)

I love you!
“…toil of the Mountain > 1 Instinctual and depending on my I RNG (As Methodical rolls 115 with HQ 52 Pickaxe, 53 Quest sledge and full NQ 55 from moghome!) would depend what I do. If I rolled well on Instinctual I would Single Mind Methodical and have over my 240 and get 5 whole rocks!…”

the mining rotations need to be fixed. It says “Toil of the pioneer” but that’s for botany and since this is a mining class, it should read “Toil of the mountaineer” just in case someone thinks “Oh… i need to lvl up my botanist to 50 in order to use these rotations.”

thank you for the updated guide for 50-60! great start, and I appreciate the work!

Might i make a suggestion? a few changes in your steps for slow learners like me :) – on the last step (where you say, “Once you reached a collectability you desire, press on collect to mine them”) if you added “the minimum collectability level is 240 for turnins, the NPC will not accept lower levels of quality”, I think it would save people a few unspoiled nodes…still not sure what to do with those odd 10 collectables i have with quality under 240…can i craft with them?

You can downgrade them to their non-collectable item (thus allowing them to stack and be sold/used for crafting). At later levels, you get a skill called “Aetherial Reduction” that reduces some collectable items to their base aetherial form, also giving you a chance to get rare item in the process.

The level 20 nodes aren’t showing up for me. I just completed the level 15 job quest. I checked to make sure prospect was on and even updated my gear, just in case, but nothing shows up on my minimap or in game. Any ideas on what’s happening?

So, For the Level 35 Levequests, who are we supposed to speak to ?
I see a guy that does guildheists and another guy that does Grand company quests, but nobody that does Levequests @ the Observatorium.

I’m a level 20 miner and I cannot find any mining above level 10 near blackbrush. I have scoured the area in and around the clutch, royal allegan sunway, and beyond. do i need to do the level 20 quest in la nocsea to unlock it? or is this a glitch on the games end?

If you are referring to the level 20 locations listed as being at “Royal Allagan Sunway”, be aware that this is a location in Eastern Thanalan, and it is different from the “Royal Allagan Starway” near Black Brush Station (Central Thanalan).

If you are referring to the level 15 locations listed under Node ID 15c, the location for these should really say “Exit to Western Thanalan”. (They should also include “Fine Sand” as one of the items, too.)

Haha yes we were also thinking of putting “EXIT TO..” like you suggested, haha. To be honest, there is an in-game node list, but we hoped by guiding the player with map text, it may be easier for them.

The housing “rocks”, and gardening soil have yet to be added to the nodes…

You CAN actually mine darksteel ore WITHOUT being level 50. You’ll have a low rate of success unless you use your + gathering chance skills at below 50, however. Darksteel ore is ALWAYS the 3rd node from the top, you DO NOT need toil of the mountaineer to reveal the node. Simply hit the 3rd node to clear it, then proceed to mine as normal.

Hey, thanks for the great work so far! I started following your suggestions tonight. Question: are the suggested stockpiles meant to help with leveling DoH classes, or are those used for levequests, or something else?
Looking forward to more updates!